Woman gets even with unkind classmate by sneakily stuffing tuna into the curtain rod during her house party: 'You're going to check a lot of places [for the smell] but never the curtain rod'

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Dec 17, 2025 4:00 PM EST

Something fishy this way comes!

This woman was attending trade school and was repeatedly made fun of by a fully grown classmate who seemed to be acting as if everyone was still in middle school. So when the woman was invited to her classmate's home for a house party, she assumed that she was only invited out of obligation. That is, of course, unless the classmate only invited her in order to make fun of her. At this point, I wouldn't put it past her.

The author of this anecdote knew that this house party was her one chance to enact some vengeance. So before she arrived at the party, she went to the grocery store to procure a little gift: canned tuna. No, this was not to be consumed in the normal way. Throughout the evening, the author managed to sneak into several rooms in the house from the bathroom to the laundry room and proceeded to remove all curtain rods from their respective positions. Then, she stuffed all the contents of that canned tuna into the insides of said curtain rods before returning them to their proper places. 

Sure, her method of vengeance did not exactly allow for the author to announce herself as the culprit, but she gained plenty of satisfaction in knowing that this unkind person was never going to get to the bottom of that inhabitable fishy smell in her house.

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  • One of the more amusing elements of this story is the fact that the author was almost caught in the act by another partygoer. However, this absolute legend seemed to understand that the author was completely justified in her actions, and he let her continue with her scheme. What a king!

  • "Hid tuna fish in curtain rod"

    This was years ago but I'm still proud of it. A girl in trade school would very casually call me a because she thought it was hilarious. I never said anything about it but I ended up at a house party at her house. I found a can
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  • of tuna and decided to go in to a couple of vacant rooms like the spare room and laundry room and pull apart the curtain rods and stuff canned tuna in them. A
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  • master plan, in my mind. That stuff stinks and when you smell something weird in your house you're going to check a lot of places but never the curtain rod.
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  • For weeks after that party I would overhear her talking to her friend about this smell that her and her boyfriend couldn't find. I got a lot of joy out of that.
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  • Edit: I should add, someone did walk in on me doing this. He just smiled and told me to carry on and left. He never did snitch. Nick, if you're out there, you're a real one.
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  • A person holds an open can of tuna.
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  • Coder Joe1 Just as good as shrimp.
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  • Cypress Thinking This is an old story. The cheated on wife loses the house and ex- husband and girlfriend get it. She stuffs shrimp shells in the curtain rods on her way out. After trying to get rid of the smell to no avail, ex-husband puts the house on the market. No one is buying a stinking house. Price gets dropped and ex-wife buys it for 1/2 price.
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  • scorpiusoz My ex got pissed off with someone and put raw mince inside the car hubcaps, in 35c heat. I think it just rotted away because he could never track down the smell
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  • ConfusedZubat In high school, one of the department's teachers would prank each other. Usually it was petty stuff like taking out the balls of the roller mouses (mice?) or hiding all of the erasers. One of the teachers escalated it and put an egg where the projector's light and cooling fan were. One day I was in class when the victim teacher starts taking notes on the projector. Very quickly an awful stench filled the classroom. Teacher immediately realized it was the projector and turned it off
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  • Headoutdaplane So, I have to explain first of all the guy that did it was a friend and remains so. We were in a practical joke war all summer just stupid shit like sedan wrapping his car. The summer comes to an end and I am moving out of state, a trip that is supposed to take two weeks as kind of a driving vacation. About day four my car really start to stink, I am bad. I unloaded that whole damn car looking for the source and finally found it. The fucker took about a half pound of frozen fish a
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  • Thisguy2728 Not your Nick, but a Nick. I'll happily accept on Nicks behalf, and pass it on up the Nick network. That said, we're also happy to stay on your good side and will never host parties again.
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  • hane 1504 Gotta love that Nick.
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  • ZombiePeacock After I heard what she was calling you, well played. I just couldn't stop laughing, 12/10
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  • RanchMomma 1968 LMFAO! I did something similar to my boss (who was a total pig- headed asshole) years ago. Except I used a can of sardines in the ceiling panel of his office. Literally for WEEKS, he complained and searched his office for the source. OF COURSE he came to myself and my co- worker to ask us if we knew anything about it. WE both denied it. After 5 weeks of enduring it, he finally went into the Owner of the company and said he couldn't stomach to go into his office anymore to work. S
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